Low funding makes it harder for the writer’s loved one to access a program that’s saved him from a cycle of hospitalization and jail.
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Maine Voices: Class of 2020, consider what COVID shutdown has given you
You have many years to take part in community sports or theater, dress up and go dancing – and even bond with your soon-to-be former classmates.
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Maine Voices: Small businesses can’t wait any longer – we must fully reopen now
Rescind the 14-day self-quarantine and promote Maine as The Safest Place to Vacation this year.
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Maine Voices: Our state’s social distancers can’t afford to be Luddites
Personally and professionally, now is the time to harness the power of the internet.
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Maine Voices: Let’s look at numbers, science while we open up our state
Maine’s CDC director and governor have kept us safer than almost any other state, a car dealer says, and they’ll reopen us to business just as safely.
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Maine Voices: Bold action on COVID testing is needed to get people back to work
A Nobel Prize-winning economist’s proposal – test essential workers daily, test the rest of us every two weeks – sets up a framework for gathering the data we need to make a decision
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Maine Voices: COVID hits hard on the working poor
People who live paycheck to paycheck can’t take the steps to protect their health that are available to their better-off neighbors.
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Maine Voices: Small nonprofits trying to map out survival strategy in summer of COVID
‘Stay home – but send us your money’ is the message being perceived by the seasonal returnees whose donations enable essential services in Maine year round.
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Maine Voices: Higher-education pundits are drawing the wrong lesson from COVID-19
The pandemic has made clear the ways in which fully online learning is no substitute for the traditional campus-based experience for young adults.
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Maine Voices: For the divorced, co-parenting in a pandemic is problematic
Legal practitioners offer some perspective on how to abide by Maine’s stay-at-home order.